The cost of multitasking

posted Mar 28, 2016, 6:39 PM by Ann Lee

Dr. Earl Miller, an expert on divided attention and a neuroscientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, states that our brains are “not wired to multitask well… when people think they’re multitasking, they’re actually just switching from one task to another very rapidly. And every time they do, there’s a cognitive cost.” Miller’s research team at MIT has concluded that: